AULT: Reflecting on the Future of Architecture
by David Akanji Welcome to AULT, the arts and culture column of The Poor Print, written by David Akanji (me). AULT exists to refocus our minds, re-engaging ourselves with art and cultural understandings. I’ll be focusing on current opinions/events/issues in the art world, but more importantly how we as students, citizens, and humans fit into […]
Read moreCantus Psalmorum
by Jerric Chong [Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the score in the print edition.]
Read moreA Word from the Editors: Century
by Siddiq Islam Now that one hundred Poor Prints have come and gone, what better a time for us editors to reflect on our time with this wonderful student publication. The Poor Print for me represents not only a physical newspaper, but the courage and talent with which Oriel students share their writing and art […]
Read more爷爷 (2021)
by David Akanji
Read moreCentury Puzzle
by Siddiq Islam In wishing The Poor Print a happy one-hundredth issue, I submit a puzzle of unwarranted length (sorry). The aim of the puzzle is to highlight the ambiguity of relationships and the conclusions to which we jump. As you read, check the assumptions you make along the way, remember the information you receive […]
Read moreon cooking at james st on a saturday night
by EH, PL and RM how does it taste? he asks it tastes like coconut milk and thai paste now i must leave in great haste mybedtimeis9pm
Read moreA Century of Wave–Particle Duality
by Andrew Boothroyd What makes a good PhD thesis? One hundred years ago, Louis-Victor de Broglie completed a 70-page doctoral thesis in which he proposed that electrons, and by extension all matter, have an associated wave. Within a year or two, de Broglie’s conjecture was to become one of the central ideas of quantum theory, […]
Read moreIssue #100 – Century
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Read moreIssue #99 – Lingering
A PDF of the print version of Issue #99 – Lingering – can be downloaded here.
Read moreSENECA LVCILIO SVO SALVTEM
by Vittorio P. Cuneo-Flood If I had a hundred mouths and a hundred tongues, I would not even be able to begin to speak of the evils of take-away coffee. Shall I first say how this habit enslaves man, or how a man is a liar if he practises it? Ah, in the same way that […]
Read moreNocowley Road
by Siddiq Islam I wander down to Cowley Road To see where all the cows are stowed, But when I find no cows are there, They tell me I should look elsewhere. ‘How rubbishly they named’, I muse, ‘A cow-named road where no cow moos,’ But on I trudge to find the cattle, My own, determined, bovine battle. I think to […]
Read more‘Empty Cradle’ 2020
by David Akanji
Read moreThe Angelic Offering
by Jerric Chong Words from the Responsory of the Burial Service in the Roman Rite
Read moreThe Peculiar World of a Scientist
by Maria Kyriazi Imagine yourself. It’s past 9pm on a Friday night, and you’re sitting in a room full of microscopes, dim light, almost completely dark, listening to the gurgling noises of the computer and the microscope. The building seems empty, but you know that there are still about ten or fifteen more people hiding behind […]
Read moreBetween Winter and Spring
by Anonymous That moment – the suspension of breath – as green veins release and begin to wash the grey in gold. The sky arches, still aching with a lingering chill as winter seeps back under the ground and spring thinks of unfurling.
Read moreEphemeral
by Lily Baughman You remain in the skin at my fingertips, neck Stained blue from your hair dye, Skin faded black Like your memory, edges blunted and Vignette When that one hangnail I pluck With my nylon teeth Grows back, it will do so Without knowing you, What it’s like to be Devoured, fissured, into […]
Read moreIssue #98 – Apologies
A PDF of the print version of Issue #98 – Apologies – can be downloaded here.
Read moreAULT: Voyage in Our Vertical Space
by David Akanji Welcome to AULT, the arts and culture column of The Poor Print, written by David Akanji (me). AULT exists to refocus our minds, re-engaging ourselves with art and cultural understandings. I’ll be focusing on current opinions/events/issues in the art world, but more importantly how we as students, citizens, and humans fit into […]
Read moreA Bird in the Hand
by Siddiq Islam
Read moreThe Triton Fountain if It Were on Triton
by Jerric Chong 18 January 2024
Read moreBeg
by Ayomikun Bolaji
Read moreApologies Playlist
Think of all the times you’ve ever had to apologise – the times you meant it, the times you didn’t. Do you think your words reached them? Touched that tiny part of their soul that needed to hear you say the words ‘I’m sorry’? How much more deeply would your apology resonate if it was accompanied with a little […]
Read morePeople I Am Sorry To and People I Am Not Sorry To
by HSE People I am sorry to: People I am not sorry to:
Read moreReflection on Contemporary Reckoning
by Melita Monemvasioti Waste not your breath in sighs Nor time in guilt Make haste! Anoint daughters with their parents tears Shroud women in their wedding suit And bury mothers in their children’s tomb. You’ve built a palace of sorrow and of gloom Armies of pestilence and doom, and now you cry? Make haste! I […]
Read moreThird Eye Shit
by Ayomikun Bolaji
Read moreConsciousness Playlist
A compilation of various tracks of popular and classical music inspired by the theme of this issue, with some text explaining that you need to scan the code using the Spotify app on your mobile device. Now, how many of you actually listen to the playlist? Each one was carefully curated by one of our […]
Read moreErwin Schrödinger
by Jerric Chong
Read moreEvolution, Eugenics and Euthanasia
by Vittorio P. Cuneo-Flood I will begin with the premise. Then, with painstaking care, I will draw out some conclusions. I hope that you disagree with the conclusions; I’m sure you’ll be shocked by some. But then, why? Is it because the premise is wrong, or because the argumentation is flawed? At what point? You […]
Read moreMind Palace
by TMRH In this, I lock the time I spentGazing at your neck(From behind.)In this, I store the touch of your handRevealing your thoughts(Held in mine.)In this, I preserve an image of youDancing with your shoes untied(Yet not falling.)And in this, I keep a fleeting hueOf your scentWhen you bent(Over to me)Wish me goodnightAnd smile.
Read moreSilence / 无言
by Yu Yan Years to come Cast foggy vagueness In the trembling heart. Tears Perch on the empty mind, Pushing forth burning memories. Hands Clutch the restrained passion, Robbed of the parting words. Dismissed as a shallow footstep Leading to predestined eventualities, The present Shines in the soul’s entirety. 将至之年在颤栗的心头倒映雾杳的朦胧 泪水在搁浅的思绪里栖居荡漾出炽热的回忆 双手紧扣矜持的眷恋难寻离别之语 无非是奔赴命定光阴的轻浅足印今朝闪熠在灵魂的每个角落
Read moreRude Frog
by Siddiq Islam
Read moreIssue #97 – Consciousness
A PDF of the print version of Issue #97 – Consciousness – can be downloaded here.
Read moreHabits Playlist
OK, you probably already know what to expect here. A compilation of various tracks of popular music inspired by the theme of this issue, with some text explaining that you need to scan the code using the Spotify app on your mobile device. Now, how many of you actually listen to the playlist? Each one […]
Read moreCryptic Crossword [6]
by Siddiq Islam Editor’s note: The solutions to this puzzle are available here. Across 1 Rest on back wheel (6) 4 Beginner with no pen eraser (6) 9 Era of mindless rage (3) 10 Last of cacti in Sahara ill (5) 11 To hang but with no initial laughing allowed (3) 12 Hilly Tour d’England […]
Read moreThe Elephant in the Room
by Vittorio P. Cuneo-Flood A habit is a quality of the soul which disposes us to certain acts; a virtue is a good habit which dis— … woah woah woah, hold on a second … soul?! Aren’t humans, like, the product of millions of years of evolution or something? How can we sincerely claim that […]
Read moreMy Name
by Yu Yan
Read moreAULT: Mastering the Craft
by David Akanji Welcome to AULT, the arts and culture column of The Poor Print, written by David Akanji (me). AULT exists to refocus our minds, re-engaging ourselves with art and cultural understanding. I’ll be focusing on current opinions/events/issues in the art world, but more importantly how we as students, citizens, and humans fit into it. […]
Read more‘I’m Drowning, Again!’
by Claudia Hutuleac Editor’s note: A black-and-white version of this drawing, as published in the print issue, is available here.
Read moreA Dream / Un Rêve
by Yu Yan A Childplaying on the ground.An Adult comes,the castle collapses,she settles in another grassland.The school pronounces wronglyher name, and childrengiggling ask,Where are you from.Why? she says,I come from afar.She takes the train to dig upher lost snowman, only to finda hostile kingdomwhose entrance code has changed. Un Enfantjouant à même le sol.Un Adulte […]
Read moreIssue #96 – Habits
A PDF of the print version of Issue #96 – Habits – can be downloaded here.
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